Staff Technical Program Manager

Experiment Lifecycle Management: Own and govern the end-to-end experimentation pipeline. Ensure every initiative begins with a clearly defined hypothesis, measurable success criteria, and structured evaluation framework. Enforce disciplined kill/scale decisions based on performance outcomes.

Cross-Functional Coordination: Serve as the primary integration point between the five-person Stord Labs team and broader enterprise stakeholders, including product, engineering, operations leadership, and warehouse operations teams executing physical workflows.

Operational Alignment: Facilitate decision-making between operations and product leadership to transition validated technologies from lab environments into live production pilots and eventually enterprise-scale deployment.

Innovation Roadmap Management: Own and sequence a prioritized experimentation pipeline spanning robotics, automation, AI systems, and operational design improvements, balancing internal development and external vendor evaluations.

External Collaboration: Coordinate technical and operational engagement with frontier AI organizations, robotics providers, and academic institutions (including partners such as Georgia Tech) to test and validate next-generation logistics capabilities.

Systems Integration Coordination: Oversee integration testing across third-party automation systems, internal software platforms, human operators, and Stord’s WMS/OMS ecosystem.

Scaling Playbooks: Develop structured deployment frameworks and operational playbooks to ensure successful translation of validated lab innovations (e.g., co-mingled inventory strategies, multi-pass picking, predictive replenishment) into production environments.